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Essential first step

Mon., June 17, 2013

Re: Out of sorts and out of joint, Opinion, June 11

Out of sorts and out of joint, Opinion, June 11

As always, Richard Gwyn’s insightful article gives his take on where the world is heading. As mentioned by him there are intractable problems to which remedies are hard to identify. We are living in a time of accelerating change made more complex and intense by globalization and a never before witnessed mixture of population.

A root cause of many problems today is religion and that is where the virtue of humility (as advocated by Gwyn) could prove efficacious. Mankind must acknowledge in all humility that there are limitations to religious writings and hence set aside a too literal interpretation of traditional religious laws.

The paramount step in humility is to acknowledge that nobody can claim a complete access to divine intelligence. This would be an essential first step toward improving the state of affairs in the world.

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